Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Before winter came, there was a light rain in Jinzhou. The rain pattered, but the ground was wet, and when the horses stepped on it, it was all muddy.

People in groups on the road rushed to the Jinzhou city construction site. They were all men, wearing hats or straw hats, carrying hoes and other tools, and carrying packages.

Gao Yanjian rode up to the people and asked people to ask them what they were doing.

Someone in the crowd yelled: "We have brought our own rations to help repair the city! The general will leave us."

"The imperial court has not forgotten Hebei, and the northern expedition is carried out twice a year. The villagers look forward to the arrival of Master Wang, how can they not contribute their strength..."

After hearing this, Gao Yanjian was greatly moved. He immediately jumped off his horse and hugged his fists and said: "Yandi righteous man understands the righteousness, please be worshipped by this general!" He said loudly, "This general is Gao Yanjian from Shu, all the soldiers. For the people of Shu, I heard that the people in Hebei were deeply harmed by the Liao people, dare not to expel the Hu people from the expedition? I will wait thousands of miles away..."

At this moment, a military commander came forward, bowed his head and whispered in Gao Yanjian's ear: "Your Majesty has come to Jinzhou for inspection."

Gao Yanjian immediately turned his head and asked, "Where can I get?"

The military commander said: "It's coming soon."

Gao Yanjian immediately greeted the Ministry General Hou Mao and said, "You come to comfort the people who come on their own initiative, but you have to register when you get into the camp. These people usually don't come alone. They are all friends in the village. They ask their fellow villagers to confirm. Identity."

Hou Mao clasped his fist and said, "I will understand at the end."

Gao Yanjian immediately took people to meet the emperor.

...Guo Shao met Gao Yanliang's people on the post road, and a group of people in front of him got off their horses and bent over and held their fists to salute: "Welcome your Majesty!"

"Free gift." Guo Shao said.

Gao Yanjian said calmly: "It's raining and cold, and I will ask your Majesty to breathe the dragon body."

Guo Shao nodded to deal with it. He was riding a horse in armor without covering his head. Although the rain was very small, it soaked the armor and clothes for a long time. The helmet and plate armor were covered with water droplets. The water droplets gathered under the brim of the hat dripped down on the face from time to time, which was full of coolness.

Guo Shao's expression was not very good, and he said few words. He just said, "Take me to see the fortifications of the city."

His voice is very low, but his words are thicker, and it sounds solid.

"Here." Gao Yanjian answered with a fist and turned to his horse.

The group of people slowly rode towards a construction site on the river bank. The dark horse under Guo Shao's seat shook his head, throwing water droplets into the air. The ground was muddy, and the horse seemed to express dissatisfaction.

Gao Yanjian pointed to the people in front of him and explained their origins.

After hearing this, Guo Shao complimented and said: "You must also beware of spies mixing in."

Gao Yanjun said: "At the end you will have to beware."

A group of people circled the city. The perimeter of the built city wall was not long. Many people were transporting soil through the rain, and some people were carrying wooden chucks on the soil wall and shouting force.

Then people came to a hillside with higher terrain. An official from the Ministry of Industry dismounted and came to Guo Shaoma and submitted a drawing: "Your Majesty saw that the city wall is very small. This is a temporary fortification, and all follow the arrangements of the military government."

Guo Shao took a look at the picture, then looked at the construction site in front of him.

In fact, what is being repaired now is not a city wall, but an earth wall, with a trench outside, which is only a temporary fortification. Because winter is about to enter, building the city wall is more difficult, and time is not enough... The Liao army may take the initiative to attack in winter, and the current preparation is for winter defense; there is a place to stand, hoarding food, grass, and soldiers.

Once you have a firm foothold, you will rebuild the city outside the fortifications. An administrative system has been established, and Jinzhou City will be built sooner or later.

Guo Shao recalled left and right and said: "The earth wall fortifications must be quickly established, and General Gao will send more scouts around. You are the furthest away from Zhuozhou. If Yeluxiu came to harass, you would probably choose Jinzhou as the target. "

Gao Yanjian and others hurriedly worshipped: "The ministers and others must follow the imperial edict."

Guo Shaoyao pointed to the distance in the drizzle, and said: "When the main city fortifications are built, the township army will reinforce Jinzhou and build a fortress around the city in the northeast. The two-tier deployment is used as an early warning and peripheral attack and defense fulcrum. The main force of the Jiannan Army sits in the center of the town to defend the granary. With the aid of the fine cavalry of the Forbidden Army in the rear, it can protect Jinzhou."

Everyone agreed, saying that the emperor had a plan.

"Drive!" Guo Shao kicked the horse's belly lightly and rushed down the hill. When everyone saw it, everyone followed him.

Guo Shao entered the fortification area to inspect, he looked very carefully, and even asked about the toilets and drains. There are also meals, winter clothes, shelters, etc. for sergeants and civilians. He came to a hayloft kitchen, took a piece of wheat cake from the bamboo basket, and tore a piece to taste.

Gao Yanjian hurriedly found a wooden stool and asked Guo Shao to sit on it. So the emperor was in a straw shed, holding a wheat cake in one hand and a branch in the other, drawing on the mud and telling the story of the military design. Tactics.

The generals listened around and discussed a few words from time to time.

At this moment, someone outside heard saying: "Your Majesty is in the house."

The veteran Tan Shitou walked in with a messenger, and the messenger presented a memorial with both hands. Guo Shao put the wheat cakes on the chopping board, took a look at the paper, and said: "Youzhou got the news that the Southern Court of Liao State has been replaced. Official Xiao Siwen was restored to his post and took over as the Great King of the Southern Court."

The generals shouted: "Xiao Siwen is your majesty's defeated general!" "This man is not your Majesty's opponent..."

Guo Shao is noncommittal. Guo Shao did defeat Xiao Simwen in Zhuozhou during the Northern Expedition of the first emperor. But when he attacked Youzhou earlier this year, he found that Xiao Simwen was very good at collecting information and deploying city defenses in a targeted manner, and it was effective.

Guo Shao didn't hit everyone's confidence, so they despised Xiao Simwen; but he didn't despise him in his heart. Guo Shao has never seen Xiao Siwen, but from the two contacts on the battlefield, it seems that Xiao Siwen is not as good as a famous general in Liao. He has insufficient sense of smell and experience on a specific battlefield, but his grasp of the overall situation is not comparable to that of ordinary generals. Enlightened, able to learn to change strategies very quickly... I heard that the royal family of Liao only married the Xiao family, and the Xiao family was the designated prime minister's clan. No wonder the strategy was better than other Khitan people.

After receiving the memorial, Guo Shaoruo continued to patrol here nonchalantly.

In a few days, he took the cavalry back and forth along the Juma River, focusing on the construction of the fortifications of the two cities. In early October, he returned to Zhuozhou City where the imperial army was stationed.

After entering Zhuozhou City, by accident, Guo Shao recognized that the house of the "Mr. Lu" family had survived the disaster, and it is still there today. When Guo Shao was a military commander, he was in this courtyard.

He looked sideways and found that there were clothes hanging on the courtyard wall, and there should be people living...but it was definitely not a member of the Lu family. The doctor Lu was deceased and Lu Lan is now in Tokyo.

Things are not people, Guo Shao suddenly gave birth to a trace of feeling, passing by here silently. He remembered Lu Lan begging him, and as expected, Xiao Simwen had come to Youzhou, but he didn't know if he had brought his family.

After rushing for several days on the muddy road in the wind and rain, Guo Shao went straight back to the palace.

Zhuozhou is far away from the cities of Central Plains and Jiangnan, but you can always find better houses as palaces. Guo Shao took a shower and changed clothes, and stopped in the bedroom.

It was still raining outside, and Guo Shao thought of those construction sites and couldn't help but cursed in a low voice: "Ghost weather!"

The inner house is very quiet. From a distance, some guards in armor and swords can be seen walking slowly under the eaves. They are a group of two, silently observing the surrounding movement.

Near the bedroom, only **** Wang Zhong and veteran Tan Shishi.

Guo Shao didn't take Jingniang out, and had been abstinent for a long time, but he still couldn't calm down at the moment, so he couldn't do other things. He walked back and forth for a while and walked to the map to ponder military affairs.

"Compared with Yeluxiu, Xiao Siwen is more conservative." Guo Shao said as if to himself.

Wang Zhong echoed in a timely manner: "Your Majesty's words are extremely true."

Guo Shao glanced at him, then lowered his head to ponder for a long time, and an intuition came to his mind: the Liao army would launch a large-scale counterattack in winter!

Many times, Guo Shao relies on intuition, just as the accuracy of archery relies on feeling. It is a subtle thing. There is not much reason for judgment, but I believe in its reliability... But the mood is not very good recently. He has captured this intuition from the dark, but he can't be confident.

Perhaps it can be inferred like this: If the Liao army were to use light cavalry to harass, Brother Yelvxiu would have better use of soldiers than Xiao Siwen; and at this time, suddenly replacing Xiao Siwen with Xiao Siwen might be accumulating something big!

Guo Shao raised his head and looked out the window. The extremely low sound of the drizzle made the surrounding area more peaceful...like dead silence.

Yes, the Great Zhou Army on the Juma Hebei Line has been very quiet these days, but the Liao Army is too quiet! It was so quiet that people did not believe that the Liao people would just sit back and watch.

The tranquility before the storm.

Guo Shao looked at Tan Shitou: "You will contact the soldiers of Cao Si. If you have any news, let me know immediately."

Tan Shitou hurriedly said: "At the end, we will follow the decree. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com has put a few brothers in the Yizhou Branch of the Bingcao Division. You will know what's going on soon."

Guo Shao added: "There may be news coming from Beijing recently."

Tan Shitou was unknown, so he looked at Guo Shao in awe... Several times Guo Shao foresaw something trivial. Tan Shitou found that he was accurate, but Tan Shitou could not figure out how the emperor knew.

If the Liao State were to mobilize its army to go south in the winter, it might begin to gather its troops in various places now. The scale of this mobilization is very large, as long as people in Beijing can see some signs with their eyes.

Guo Shao was thinking about everything in his mind. He was exhausted and exhausted for a few days, but he was not drowsy, and his spirit was always in a state of tension and excitement. He was a little worried and worried in case something went wrong; he was also a little hopeful that every time he spent a contest, he could make the whole layout one step forward! So he seemed a little impatient, wishing to see the upcoming results quickly.

He took a long breath and recovered. The surroundings were calm and nothing happened. Time was still slowly passing bit by bit, calmly. This was destined to be a long process.

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